The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-29

| bales. This is very good showing, and
one well calculated to encourage the bust
ness men. With the extension of the A. P.
and l.. and the terminus of the Buena Vista
road removed TO Americas, it can safely
count apon &c, 900 bales next season.
G. W. Hughes and Thomas II. West, two
prisoners who have been confined i'll Fulton
county Jail for some time charged with
violating the internal revenue laws, were
liberated Friday morning. They were
unable to give the bond fixed by the United
States Commissioner when they were arrest
ed and did not succeed in making it until
next morning, when they were given their
liberty till the time set for their trial.
The Quitman Band is now full organized
and under the efficient instruction Of Prof.
Wallace, is progressing rapidly. 1t is com
posed OF the following members: George w.
Avrett, s. A. Remington, DR.. Snow, Wal
lace Mathews, Fuller Grower, John Avera,
G. NJ Badger, r. NJ. Powers, j. NJ. Young
and Charlie Avera. There is good material
in this band and the boys promise to give
some fine music during the summer
Rev. Willis Warren colored) is said to be
a tremendous power among his people He
lives in Lee county and is highly esteemed
among the whites and blacks He has
charge of about 800, and when one Of his
members acts wrong he is said to go to the
plantation where the offender resides and
administer a sound hogging He often set
ties disputes between the neighbors, and 1t
Is said that no man exercises more influence
in the section where he lives.
The MORNING NEWS correspondent at
Folkston, under date Of May q, writes that
they have been having good and frequent
rains in that section of South Georgia since
May l. and that the crops in that Charlton
county, also in Camden and Ware counties,
were looking very fine. Truck farmers have
| been shipping beans to Northern markets
| from Folkston since May 2 and have been
realizing very good prices. In one instance
an acres of beans Melted the grower nearly
| $500
| Athens Banner Wutchnadn: We have re-
ceived from E. K Lumpkin basket of the
| finest Strawberries we have seen this season.
Some of them are as large as guinea eggs.
| Mr.. Lumpkin raises these berries in his
| garden in this city, cultivating them by the
| trenching system, which process we pub
| lished some time since Thorough prepare
| ton will tell, in spite of dry weather. Mr..
| Lumpkin is one Of the finest gardeners in
| Athens, and is successful in everything he
| undertakes
OnN n. NJ. Viewers plantation in the Ninth
district of Randolph county, on or near the
| Pataula creek, the storm of last Tuesday
evening scorched the cotton on an eighteen
acre field, burning the leaves to q crisp and
| killing it. The cotton in the entire field, ex-
| cept ON a narrow strip next piece of wood
| land, was scorched so that the leaves were
as completely crisped and dry as if ball OF
| fire had rolled over it, Can some one ex-
| plain this wonderful phenomenon No other
| crop in the plantation was injured.
Work on Athens new opera house hangs
| fire, on account of a discovery that the
shape of the lots is cranksided and the build
ing designed won't fit it. An effort is made
to exchange a small strip of ground with
| adjacent land owners on each side, but they
| insist on selling their property. The only
way left to remedy the matter is to take off
a foot from the size of the house, when it
can be gotten on the ground without being
built lap-sided. Already eleven days have
been lost. Il is now too late to abandon the
project, as the contractors have ordered the
material to build.
Who wouldn't be a Georgia country edi-
torl Just hear how Brother Galloway, of
the Lagrange Reporter, enjoys life: ut
was our good fortune on last Tuesday to
lay dull care aside and, in company with
several other q handsome gentlemen and a
| bevy of West Points fair maidens, to bic
away, in one of Cooper & Kirby's splendid
tuTnouts, to the classic, inviting shades and
NOISY banks of Flat Shoal creek, at John
delightful manner, chasing wild flow
ers, climbing the picturesque hills
and angling for ''minnows and love- "
AT high noon we gathered ourselves
together uround the festive cloth that
groaned beneath its load of good things and
partook of a feast that was indeed "but-
ton tester. The tempting viands disap-
peared with lightning like rapidity and
continued until we grew to fitness that
babe US take no more. After a merry,
merry day we returned home in good
humor with ourselves and all the world,
and feeling better for having gone to our
annual picnic"